Karel Maydl (10 March 1853 – 8 August 1903) was an Austrian

surgeon In medicine, a surgeon is a medical doctor who performs surgery. Even though there are different traditions in different times and places, a modern surgeon is a licensed physician and received the same medical training as physicians before spec ...

who was a native of

Rokytnice nad Jizerou Rokytnice nad Jizerou () is a town in Semily District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,500 inhabitants. Administrative division Rokytnice nad Jizerou consists of seven municipal parts (in brackets population according to ...

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. In 1876 he received his medical doctorate at

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, and following graduation was a surgical assistant to

Carl Wilhelm Heine Carl Wilhelm Heine (later von Heine) (26 April 1838, in Cannstatt – 9 September 1877, in Cannstatt) was a German physician, surgeon and President of the German medical fraternity of Prague. Start of career and military service Heine was the son ...

(1838–1877). Afterwards he worked with

Eduard Albert Eduard Albert (20 January 1841 – 26 September 1900) was a Czech surgeon, professor and historian. Life Eduard Albert was born on 20 January 1841in Žamberk, Bohemia, in the family of clockmaker František Albert and Kateřina Albertová (n ...

(1841–1900) at the Universities of

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and

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. In 1886, he became an associate professor in

, and in 1891 was appointed professor of surgery at the Czech University in Prague. Karel Maydl is remembered for the introduction of new surgical techniques, including a procedure for treatment of

bladder exstrophy Bladder exstrophy is a congenital anomaly that exists along the spectrum of the exstrophy-epispadias complex, and most notably involves protrusion of the urinary bladder through a defect in the abdominal wall. Its presentation is variable, ofte ...

, as well as loop

colostomy A colostomy is an opening (stoma) in the large intestine (colon), or the surgical procedure that creates one. The opening is formed by drawing the healthy end of the colon through an incision in the anterior abdominal wall and suturing it int ...

for use in cases of inoperable

rectal cancer Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine). Signs and symptoms may include blood in the stool, a change in bowel ...

. His name is associated with " Maydl's hernia", defined as a strangulated bowel within the

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having the loops of the

intestines The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to the anus. The tract is the largest of the body's systems, after the cardiovascular system. ...

forming a W. In 1897 he was the first physician to describe the disease later known as Legg–Calvé–Perthes syndrome.

References

* 1853 births 1903 deaths People from Rokytnice nad Jizerou Surgeons from Austria-Hungary {{austria-med-bio-stub